San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-09-15
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Bills Bills
In accordance with our announcomer
last week, we send out in this issue state
ments of account to our subscribers VIII
owe, and respectfully solicit prompt remit
tances of the balances shown to DO due
No,c is probably the best time to pay whic
will be found for year to come, an
newspaper cannot be run without money
and good deal of IL.
Local news is not superintendent.
We continue to hear of cases of fever.
And still it grows drier every day-no
even sign of rain.
See card of John j. Barbee's feed stor'
in our advertising columns.
See in advertising columns the prospectus
of that great newspaper, the Chicago News
Capt. Ferg Kyle announces that the ALI
ance cotton yard at Kyle is ready for bust
ness.
A few of our vacant dwellings are being
occupied, mostly by teachers or pupils Of
the Institute.
We continue to furnish the FREE Pres
to preachers and preachers widows at hal
price-$1 year.
There is still money in the country, al
witness frequent new subscriptions and re
newals to the FREE Press
Our Western Correspondence on the frs
page is remarkably well written. We hope
to hear from our fair and gifted cores
pondent again.
Read the poem on our first page-"The
Two Wants." We have known 1t by hear'
for more than forty years. 1t is Gospe
truth-no getting over it or around it,
The present session of Kyle Seminary we
learn opened with over one hundred pupils
Prof James is still the principal. Miss
Mitchell, of Missouri, we learn is again OF
the corps of teachers
|. We wish 10 say that we are disposed to be
accommodating these hard times. and viii
gladly take anything we may need as
"family man" in payment of debts due this
Office, or on new subscriptions.
Thanks to the friends who have b5en re-
Numbering US pecuniarily of late. As we
have often before had occasion to remark,
NO paper ever had better or truer friends
than the FREE Press. We shall never cease
to cherish their remembrance.
RENDER that perhaps the most acceptable
present you can make to friends resident
abroad is copy of the SAN MARCOS FREl
PRESS. And persons about leaving this
place to sojourn elsewhere should not fai
TO SuDScrlDe huu tnuS uo chuciSu w nSSt
posted as to home happenings.
Marburg Brothers, the famous tobacco
house of Baltimore, have presented us with
n half pound box of their famous "Seal o.
North Carolina" plug cut smoking tobacco
AS we do not use the weed in any form, WI
placed it where it would do most good, 'il
the hands of venerable and appreciativ'
typo, at present in our employ. Thanks al
the same.
Economy and strength are peculiar to
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the only medicine OF
which 100 Doses One Dollar is true.
Nice lot of winter wraps ut
JOHNSON & JoHNsoN's.
Get your California fruits. fresh candies
soda water, and ice cream at Candy Factory
and Blue Front. Oysters to follow soon.
+. New dry goods, ginghams, prints, domes
tics, in good variety.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON.
Don't forget to call on w. @. Dugga,
when you want your houses, gins, &c, in.
sured against fire. Lowest rates and best
companies in the United States.
Wanted.
$50 Cedar Fence Posts. Apply at Burns
& Peters Commissary, or to
E. S. MACKIN.
For Sale.
Three choice lots in Cofield's addition tc
San Marcos, q short distance below Assem-
bly, Hill. One or all will be sold. Inquire
at FREE PRESS Office.
For Sale.
NY residence in San Marcos, consisting Of
two large lots with improvements. The
whole will be sold together, or the lots sep
arately, to suit purchasers. Call on or adj
dress L. U. WooTToN,
iune l7tf San Marcos
To the Trade.
We are closing out at cost, for cash,
Some articles below cost. Our stock con
sists of stoves and tinware. Save money
these tight times by calling on
OWNBY & SON.
San Marcos, Texas, Sept. 10, 1887.
Notice.
The co-partnership heretofore existing
between s, b. Mcbride d. L. W. CALDWELL